[ivtv-devel] No PVR-150 Tuner Picture

2005-02-01 Thread Scot Gordon
I was hoping someone might see something I'm doing incorrectly here. I've got a PVR-150 installed on 2.6.10 (compiled from source, I tried FC3 but all I got was hard locks upon loading the ivtv module). I've downloaded and installed 0.3.2c. All the modules seem to load fine, but when I do mplay

Re: [ivtv-devel] PATCH: PVR-150 audio patch (should work for NTSC and PAL)

2005-02-01 Thread Chris Petersen
Here is the patch that should work for NTSC AND PAL cards. Note: This is patched off of a clean 0.3.2c source line, but it should work will for the 0.3.2b sources as well. looks to me like it works, too. NTSC 150 MCE. granted, I'm using svideo and composite, so I guess that this is a "didn't b

[ivtv-devel] [UNKNOWN CARD]

2005-02-01 Thread Bubba Slash
ivtv: no version for "struct_module" found: kernel tainted. ivtv: START INIT IVTV ivtv: version 0.2.0 (rc3b) loading ivtv: Linux version: 2.6.10-1.9_FC2 686 REGPARM 4KSTACKS gcc-3.3 ivtv: In case of problems please include the debug info ivtv: between the S

Re: [ivtv-devel] PATCH: PVR-150 audio patch (should work for NTSC and PAL)

2005-02-01 Thread Jaap Braam
Works great for me!!! (PVR-150 MCE PAL) Jaap. John Eckhart wrote: Hi all, It looks like the PAL cards are pulling the audio from a different path on the cx25840 chip than the NTSC cards. I'm not sure why, and I don't know the architecture of the cards or the chip well enough to hazard a guess. I ha

[ivtv-devel] PATCH: PVR-150 audio patch (should work for NTSC and PAL)

2005-02-01 Thread John Eckhart
Hi all, It looks like the PAL cards are pulling the audio from a different path on the cx25840 chip than the NTSC cards. I'm not sure why, and I don't know the architecture of the cards or the chip well enough to hazard a guess. I have updated my patch so that it changes the path source depending

Re: [ivtv-devel] PVR-150MCE PAL - Mono audio - FIXED

2005-02-01 Thread Alan Gonzalez
It would be good if we can get these patches put into the driver, so that we don't loose track of them. Who can put files up on no-ip.info? Is it only Chris? If so, we need to be able to patch the driver somehow and produce new packages. On Tue, 01 Feb 2005 21:39:36 +0100, Jaap Braam <[EMAIL P

Re: [ivtv-devel] Yuan MPC622 mini-pci encoder got b/w video

2005-02-01 Thread kevin thayer
black/white usually means you're using the wrong input (at least on saa7115s) try a different input perhaps? Apologies if you have already :) -tmk --- Brian Litzinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > http://www.litzinger.com/mpc622/ > > I have black and white video showing up via both the > com

Re: [ivtv-devel] PATCH: PVR-150 NTSC audio patch

2005-02-01 Thread Nick Rosier
Jaap, did you happen to notice an improvement in image quality when you tried this patch? I reverted a bit to quickly back to the default 0.3.2c. I've been playing around a bit with the different registers based on this patch trying to get a better image. Some channels show some faint noise in the

Re: [ivtv-devel] PVR350: strange and unexpected problems

2005-02-01 Thread Andreas Gungl
On Dienstag 01 Februar 2005 21:36, Florian Baumgartner wrote: > Hi all, > > sorry for bothering the mailing list, but I tried to fix the problem now > for almost a week. I am using a gentoo-kernel (2.6.10 r6) and have a > PVR350. The ivtv driver (I tried almost anything from 0.2 to 0.3 > whatever

Re: [ivtv-devel] PATCH: PVR-150 NTSC audio patch

2005-02-01 Thread Jaap Braam
Hi all, This patch doesn't work for my PVR-150MCE PAL card. I get no audio at all... I do, however, have good sound with this card based on ivtv-0.3.2c with a small patch... (see my post: Re: [ivtv-devel] PVR-150MCE PAL - Mono audio - FIXED ) I will try to look at the differences and make this p

[ivtv-devel] PVR350: strange and unexpected problems

2005-02-01 Thread Florian Baumgartner
Hi all, sorry for bothering the mailing list, but I tried to fix the problem now for almost a week. I am using a gentoo-kernel (2.6.10 r6) and have a PVR350. The ivtv driver (I tried almost anything from 0.2 to 0.3 whatever, including some gentoo ebuilds) compiles without problems and gets lo

Re: [ivtv-devel] PVR-150MCE PAL - Mono audio - FIXED

2005-02-01 Thread Jaap Braam
Hi All, I'm using ivtv-0.3.2.c now and it turned out that it was a very small fix to get stereo sound instead of two channel mono! It turned out that the prefered audio mode was set to 0 = Mono/Language A: If mono, play mono; if dual or NICAM TRIVOX, play language A; if stereo, force to mono

Re: [ivtv-devel] pvr-350, the way to go?

2005-02-01 Thread Andrew Kohlsmith
On February 1, 2005 01:32 pm, kevin thayer wrote: > > mplayer -vo ivtv works not too bad... if the video > > stream is not ac3 (and thus not using -ac hwac3) > > I get far worse jerkiness/tearing. > > ac3 is worse? or normal audio is wrose? Sorry. AC3 is pretty good (presumably because the sound

Re: [ivtv-devel] PVR350 TV-Out has poor performance and "mplayer -vo xv" doesn't work

2005-02-01 Thread Tyler Trafford
John Harvey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The first statement is true. The second one isn't but > we haven't figured out how to do it. > We should be able to send it YUV data which shrinks > the bandwidth requirements enough to probably be > useable. > Unfortunately i havent found a reliable place t

Re: [ivtv-devel] PATCH: PVR-150 NTSC audio patch

2005-02-01 Thread Nick Rosier
Audio stopped working on my PAL 150MCE :-( Didn't really bother checking if the image quality was better; without any sound it's no good... On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 11:29:15 +0100, Nick Rosier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyone tried this patch on with a PAL 150MCE? I have some noise on my > channels (

Re: [ivtv-devel] pvr-350, the way to go?

2005-02-01 Thread kevin thayer
> mplayer -vo ivtv works not too bad... if the video > stream is not ac3 (and thus not using -ac hwac3) > I get far worse jerkiness/tearing. ac3 is worse? or normal audio is wrose? > I am assuming this is because mplayer is > converting from divx or mpeg4 or whatever I'm > playing and mpegpes

Re: [ivtv-devel] pvr-350, the way to go?

2005-02-01 Thread Andrew Kohlsmith
On February 1, 2005 12:37 pm, kevin thayer wrote: > The pvr350's hardware overlay was designed for OSD > text only. We are using it as a full Xwindows display. > It was never designed to support this and i'm amazed > it works as well as it does. It is not a video card, > it is a mpeg decoder and ca

RE: [ivtv-devel] PVR350 TV-Out has poor performance and "mplayer -vo xv" doesn't work

2005-02-01 Thread Chad Osmond
I'll look for the setting to specify to use the TV Out on the MythTV setup. Thanks, -Original Message- From: Alex Harford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: February 1, 2005 12:10 PM To: ivtv-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [ivtv-devel] PVR350 TV-Out has poor performance and "mplay

Re: [ivtv-devel] PVR350 TV-Out has poor performance and "mplayer -vo xv" doesn't work

2005-02-01 Thread John Harvey
The first statement is true. The second one isn't but we haven't figured out how to do it. We should be able to send it YUV data which shrinks the bandwidth requirements enough to probably be useable. Unfortunately i havent found a reliable place to transfer the data too and we are currently waiti

Re: [ivtv-devel] pvr-350, the way to go?

2005-02-01 Thread kevin thayer
> Maybe our definitions of ok are different? :) But > I'm seeing tearing > every second or so, which isn't good IMO. let me say this again: The pvr350's hardware overlay was designed for OSD text only. We are using it as a full Xwindows display. It was never designed to support this and i'm ama

Re: [ivtv-devel] PATCH: PVR-150 NTSC audio patch

2005-02-01 Thread kevin thayer
I have spoken with hauppauge about this sort of thing in the past. it sounds simple, but there are more complex issues. 1) linux and windows have completely different O/S level interfaces. The part that configures the card will probably be the same, but actaully interacting with the card won't be

Re: [ivtv-devel] PVR350 TV-Out has poor performance and "mplayer -vo xv" doesn't work

2005-02-01 Thread Tyler Trafford
On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 08:51:57 -0500, Chad Osmond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I also noticed that I am unable to use the XV to display anything from > mplayer, I have to use x11 which is killing the CPU. > All my dmesg and modprobes can be seen in my previous message. The 350's TV out X driver

Re: [ivtv-devel] pvr-350, the way to go?

2005-02-01 Thread Alex Harford
On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 21:59:10 -, John Harvey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No. Use fbdev. > Ivtv was needed from about 0.4 until 0.7. At 0.7 you needed both (silly half > fix on my part) and 0.8 reverted to fbdev. Thanks John, I appreciate it. > I get reasonable results from mplayer -vo x11 >

Re: [ivtv-devel] PVR350 TV-Out has poor performance and "mplayer -vo xv" doesn't work

2005-02-01 Thread Alex Harford
On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 08:51:57 -0500, Chad Osmond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks to the list I've got my Tuner working, I am still getting poor > performance when watching tv (Athlon 900) > > I also noticed that I am unable to use the XV to display anything from > mplayer, I have to use x

RE: [ivtv-devel] Hauppauge PVR-500 MCE (OEM) almost perfect

2005-02-01 Thread Grant
Hi, Freaky, you emailed me but when I reply your email address bounces. If you are going to email how about using a real address? You wrote: *** Heya, small ques, did you try the tuner 24? I'm at work now, so I can'

RE: [ivtv-devel] Best way to Demux raw PVR capture file in preparation for burning to DVD?

2005-02-01 Thread Cory Papenfuss
On Mon, 31 Jan 2005, Dan Bartels wrote: Yes, you understand the script correctly. It does recode everything into a DVD-Friendly file. (And if you give it the option, it'll dvdauthor it for you. I found that this was the best way for everything to work out best/most compatible, etc. Avidemux2 does

Re: [ivtv-devel] Re: Best way to Demux raw PVR capture file in preparation for burning to DVD?

2005-02-01 Thread Joe Briggs
I asked the product manager at VideoReDo is he had intention for a Linux release but he simply had no idea of the market size. It is only a $50 product (although a great product). I server the public access television community, and a Linux based cut & hack tool like VideoReDo is direly needed. Th

[ivtv-devel] PVR350 TV-Out has poor performance and "mplayer -vo xv" doesn't work

2005-02-01 Thread Chad Osmond
Title: Message Thanks to the list I've got my Tuner working, I am still getting poor performance when watching tv (Athlon 900)   I also noticed that I am unable to use the XV to display anything from mplayer, I have to use x11 which is killing the CPU. All my dmesg and modprobes can be seen

Re: [ivtv-devel] PATCH: PVR-150 NTSC audio patch

2005-02-01 Thread Jeff Williams
I have a diamond pvr550/yuan pg600 which seems to be closely related to the pvr-150. In fact, after realizing that the tuner input was input 1, not input 6, I was able to acquire a fairly good picture from 0.3.2a. However this has not been the case since. I have even fiddled with the code in the at

Re: [ivtv-devel] PATCH: PVR-150 NTSC audio patch

2005-02-01 Thread Matt
Understand something, I never complained that they weren't forthcoming with information... I was complaining that they weren't forthcoming with DRIVERS!!! I then cited an example of a company that does provide linux drivers to indicate what should be the norm not the exception. Hauppague had a

[ivtv-devel] Re: PATCH: PVR-150 NTSC audio patch

2005-02-01 Thread James L. Reese
On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 20:04:28 -0500 John Eckhart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I have been playing around with the settings for the pvr-150 NTSC and > have mangaged to get the audio working fairly consistently. Per the > spec-sheet, I removed some of the settings in Ulf's patch that the

Re: [ivtv-devel] PATCH: PVR-150 NTSC audio patch

2005-02-01 Thread Nick Rosier
Anyone tried this patch on with a PAL 150MCE? I have some noise on my channels (some are worse than others) and I've heared others complain about it as well. Otherwise, I'll try the patch tonight and see. N. On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 20:04:28 -0500, John Eckhart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, >

RE: [ivtv-devel] Re: v4l vs ivtv namespace

2005-02-01 Thread ivtv-devel
Axel, before I start don't get me wrong here I can appreciate that Hauppauge might be giving a lot of support to the ivtv (and other) driver Projects. I am *very* grateful for all the hard work that lots of people have put into this project but from a _user_ pov it is very awkward to have inco

Re: [ivtv-devel] Re: Patch for x86_64 and tons of output to syslog

2005-02-01 Thread Jose Alberto Reguero
I try the two patches in an amd64 an it works well. Thanks Jose Alberto El Viernes, 28 de Enero de 2005 04:10, D. Hugh Redelmeier escribió: > I've revised Jose Alberto Reguero's patch for ivtv-0.3.2b. > This is along the lines of my revision to his patch for > ivtv-0.2.0-rc3d. > > I have NOT teste

Re: [ivtv-devel] alias tveeprom tveeprom-ivtv does not work

2005-02-01 Thread Thomas Börkel
HI! I am using the atrpms version of the driver and the other one ("alias msp3400 msp3400-ivtv") works OK. Thomas kevin thayer wrote: i think the tveeprom-ivtv module is only created by the ATrpms version of the driver. if you compile from source, you won't have them could be wrong. -tmk --- Thom

Re: [ivtv-devel] alias tveeprom tveeprom-ivtv does not work

2005-02-01 Thread kevin thayer
i think the tveeprom-ivtv module is only created by the ATrpms version of the driver. if you compile from source, you won't have them could be wrong. -tmk --- Thomas Börkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > HI! > > Using ivtv 0.2.0 rc3c, kernel 2.6.9, FC2. When I add > the line > > alias tveeprom